SOURCE: Nilsson, Nils Åke. “Poetic Naivism: Czeslaw Milosz and Pär Lagerkvist.” Scando-Slavica 36 (1990): 41-53.
In the following essay, Nilsson finds historical, biographical, and religious similarities between Czeslaw Milosz's poem “Father in the Library” and Lagerkvist's untitled poem from his collection The Road of the Happy Man.
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